Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decision on this question was up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Monroe Doctrine, and last week the President quickly chose a formula on which the State Department instructed Ambassador Josephus Daniels to take his stand at Mexico City. The formula: Washington is not disposed to consider that the U. S. and British owners of the seized properties are entitled to compensation based upon their valuation. But Washington is disposed to invite payment by the Mexican Government of compensation based upon what the owners originally paid for the properties and their development, less depreciation...
...rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from 107 to 98 on the Dow-Jones industrial scale. These mixed statistics could be interpreted almost any way. But both Henry Ford and Jesse Jones chose to be optimistic...
...Association has done just the reverse, with these results last week: 1) Wisconsin's Congressman Gardner R. Withrow, directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automobile dealer-manufacturer relations; 2) FTC acquiesced to the N. A. D. A. petition for a conference to establish fair trade practice rules, chose April 26 as the day, Detroit as the place. On the agenda, among other things, said FTC, are "various forms of misrepresentation, including misleading illustrations; use of fictitious prices and terms of sale; false invoicing; coercion; commercial bribery; finance charge 'packing,' and price discrimination...
Peace. Meanwhile the man who is generally regarded as the world's greatest living scientist lives placidly in a white frame house on Princeton's Mercer Street. He chose it for two dimensions, the height of its ceilings and the length of its flower garden in the back. He lives there with Margot, his late wife's daughter by a previous marriage, and his secretary, Fraulein Helen Dukas, who since Frau Einstein's death last year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning...
...Harvard University stiffly accepted a $1,000,000 bequest from the eccentric widow of Lucius William Nieman, rich founder of the Milwaukee Journal. Her object was to elevate standards of U. S. journalism. Harvard decided that could best be done by creating fellowships for newspapermen. Last week Harvard overseers chose nine "fellows" from 312 newspapermen who had applied for the opportunity to improve their understanding of the world they write about. The nine who will study at Harvard on a year's leave of absence from their jobs...